"literal" clarity vs. symbolic clarity

[Truerenigma]

Sorry for replying to myself, but I thought of an analogy. I never think about sex, but it occured to me that if I ever read pornographic writing, I imagine that I might distinguish between it and erotic writing by how literal it is. Overly literal writing about sex could be crude, I have heard.

Also, if you have to conjure up a meaning, it involves your eroticism in inventing an image and a meaning.

I have similar taste in visual art, music and writing. In my past I encountered a lot of people who liked abstract art but would say "it's not music" if it didn't meet a set of predefined notions of what music is.

There is a place between free association and sub-literal writing, where the first is naive or bad and the second isn't, in my opinion.

Ok, I'm done with this discussion. I can't talk to someone who never thinks about sex!